new package: virt-viewer

Advisory:	RHEA-2008:0467-2
Type:	Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity:	N/A
Issued on:	2008-05-21
Last updated on:	2008-05-21
Affected Products:	RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
OVAL:	N/A

Details

A new virt-viewer package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Virtual Machine Viewer (virt-viewer) is a lightweight interface for
interacting with the graphical display of a virtualized guest OS. It uses
GTK-VNC and libvirt to look up the VNC server details associated with the
guest. It is intended as a replacement for the traditional vncviewer
client, since the latter does not support SSL/TLS encryption of x509
certificate authentication.

All users requiring virt-viewer should install this newly-released package,
which adds this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5.src.rpm	`57d6617fd322328b8a7bb90e9b72764e`

IA-32:
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5.i386.rpm	`6470c205d5380a757ca32fa2ef45e28d`

x86_64:
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5.x86_64.rpm	`3e7c51d8b6ad1a9a09d0d3227a9e4b1b`

RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5.src.rpm	`57d6617fd322328b8a7bb90e9b72764e`

IA-32:
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5.i386.rpm	`6470c205d5380a757ca32fa2ef45e28d`

IA-64:
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5.ia64.rpm	`1ac9df2ce1dacedc741d534b51f79c16`

x86_64:
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5.x86_64.rpm	`3e7c51d8b6ad1a9a09d0d3227a9e4b1b`

(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

428164 - New package virt-viewer required for python-virtinst
434812 - [RHEL5.2]: virt-viewer doesn't capture Alt-s, even when the focus is "grabbed"

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